graphic computer system - Created by Doug Engelbart in the 1960s, controlled by a special keyboard and something called a mouse, that would let people work together on documents, manipulate complex ideas, even from far-flung locales.
The idea of the graphic computer, in 1950. "It just went together within an hour or two, about what computers could do," Engelbart remembers. "Because I'd been a radar technician I knew how radar made images on the oscilloscope, and also how radar electronics could change things on the screen. I knew that if a computer could punch cards or print on paper, it could draw things on the screen."
X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System - Patent 3541541, Issued November 17, 1970 - U.S. patent for the computer mouse, which Engelbart called an "X-Y Position Indicator." - drawing
The idea of the graphic computer, in 1950. "It just went together within an hour or two, about what computers could do," Engelbart remembers. "Because I'd been a radar technician I knew how radar made images on the oscilloscope, and also how radar electronics could change things on the screen. I knew that if a computer could punch cards or print on paper, it could draw things on the screen."
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